Bottle



N0. 623,679. Patented' Apr. 25, |899.

J. G. MACE.

BOTTLE.

(Appucatinn med oct. 1a, 1898,)

(No Model.)

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JOSEPH G. MACE, OF HUDSON, MASSACHUSETTS.

BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 623,679, dated April 25, 1899.

Application filed October 18, 1898. Serial No. 693,851. (No model.)

T0 all whom t Wray concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH G. MACE, a suhject of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, residing at Hudson, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bottles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this speciiication, in explaining its nature.

The invention relates to devices hereinafter described for indicating the reuse of bottles, jugs, and other vessels. It is represented in the drawings as applied to a bottle.

It comprises acylindrical case having a passage through which the contents of the bottle may be removed, a peculiar valve and valve-holder, and means for permanently7 attaching it to the neck of a bottle after the valve has been set against its seat to close the passage in the case.

It further relates to means whereby the valve lnaynot be restored toits seat after the cylinder has been attached to the bottle and the valve released to permit the removal of the original contents of the bottle.

In the drawings, Figure l is a view in vertical section of the neck of a bottle containing my improvement. Fig. 2 is aviewin section of the neck of the bottle prepared to receive my improvement. Fig. 3 is a View in plan of the complete bottle of Fig. l. Fig. 4 is a view in cross-section upon the dotted line 4 4 of Fig. 1, representing also the parts above said line. Fig. 5 is a view in section upon the dotted line 5 5 of Fig. l. Fig. 6 is aview representing the Valve-casing and parts before they are assembled together. Fig. 7 is a View of a modified form of the bottle-neck, to which reference is hereinafter made.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the neck of the bottle. It is provided with the shoulder a in its passage d', adjacent to the top edge a2 of the neck. This shoulder is about the lower edge of a continuous inward extension CL3 and serves to receive and hold the ends of the fastening-springs h, which fasten the cylindrical valve-case B in the neck of the bottle. The inward extension a3 reduces the size of the passage o of the bottle to the bore of the valve-case B, which is made to fit the same.

-The valve-case is preferably of metal and is cylindrical throughout, excepting that at its u pper end it has an outward-extending flange h'. There extends through the valve-case from one end to the other a passage b2. The lower end h3 of the valve-case is enlarged to the shoulder h4, and there is arranged to bear against the shoulder an elastic seat h5, of rubber or other similar resilient material.

The chamber Z13 is of a size to receive the ball-valve C, and l[his ball-valve is secured to the cylindrical case B before itis attached to the bottle and when it is possible to bring suficient pressure against it to compress the valve-seat b5 enough to permitthe end d of the holding-rod D to make engagement with the ball, such engagement being possible when the ball is pressed hard enough against the packing to compress it, but being otherwise impossible-that is, the weight of the ball alone on the packing or the weight of the ball plus the weight of the contents of the bottle being insufficient to compress the packing or seat to an extent necessary to per mit the said engagement to be made. I prefer for the purpose of making engagement to provide the ball with a small screw-threaded hole d' and to make the inner end of the holder D screw-threaded to fit the threaded hole and to engage the holder and the ball by turning the ball or the holder sufficiently to cause the threads to slightly lap, perhaps a quarter or a third of a revolution. The holding-rod is held at the outer end of the case by a key d2, by means of which it may be turned to release the ball. This holder has a short cylindrical section d3, which extends into the passage h2 enough to steady it, and it may also have the holes d4, through which the passage h2 may be seen.

The springs h are attached to the outer side of the case near its inner end, and their free ends extend outwardly therefrom. (See Fig. 6.) The cylindrical case thus prepared and closed is then inserted into the neck of a filled bottle, a packing e, of rubber or other resilient material, being first placed to be interposed between the iiange and the top surface of the neck. The ends of the springs b are so arranged in relation to the langeh as to require the compression of the packing c before the ends of the springs will clear the IOO shoulders a and spring to a position to engage the same, as represented in Fig. l. The surface of the case may have recesses 11G of the size ofthe springs h to receive them as the portion of the case against which they are is being moved through the section d3.

The valve-seat h5 and valve C prevent the escape of the contents of the bottle through the passage lf2 until the valve is released by the turning of the holder D, and when released the valve cannot be returned to its holder beca-use the valve-seat, having been released, expands and serves to hold the valve away from the holder.

It will be understood that the holder is not made long enough to permit an engagement between its end and the valve to be made excepting when the valve-seat has been compressed.

It will further bc seen that the closed valvecase cannot be removed from the neck of the bott-le once inserted therein without breaking the bottle.

It will also be seen that the packing between the flange Z1 and the end of the neck acts 'to prevent the escape of the contents of the bottle between the casing and the neck and also serves to continuously hold the ends of the spring-arms against the shoulder, and thus not only prevents rattle, but also acts as a means for overcoming any slight inequalities in the length of the thickened end orsection a3.

In Fig. 7 I have represented the bottle-neck as not only provided with a shoulder for receiving the ends of the valve-case holders, but as also drawn in slightly, so as to come into contact or very nearly come into contact with the lower edge of the valve-case, and thus close the space surrounding the lower end of the valve-case, as represented in Fig. l. This construct-ion has an advantage of a negative character perhaps in that it removes any suggestion as to the possibility of a restoration of the valve to its valve-seat by any device which should use said recess as a means for accomplishing this end.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United Statesl. In a bottle the combination of the bottle-neck having a valvecasereceiving section and a shoulder below said section of the valve-case having at its outer end a flange and at its inner end a chamber b3, the compressible valve-seat, a valve to compress the valve-seat and to hold it compressed by engaging means which make engagement therewith when the valve-seat is compressed, but which cannot make engagement therewith when the valve-seat is uncompressed, said engaging means, automatic spring-locks carried by the case to engage the shoulders of the bottlc-neck and a compressible packing between the case-ilange and the upper end of the bottlc-neck.

2. In a bottle a valve-case having an opening through which the contents of the bottle maybe removed,a compressed resilient valveseat, a valve held against said compressed resilient seat by devices which engage the valve when so held but which cannot engage said valve when the packing is uncompressed, and which devices are actuated to release the valve from the exposed end of the case, the said seat being compressed by the valve and the valve being secured to said holding device before the casing is attached to the bottlc and means for attaching said casin g to the bottle.

3. A bottle having a compressed resilient valve-seat surrounding the passage from the bottle, a valve to compress said seat, means for holding said valve to compress said seat and for releasing the said valve,which means may not make engaging connection with said valve after it has been released because of the expanding of the compressed Valve-seat to its original size.

4. A bottle having a neck provided with a shoulder and an enlargement beneath said shoulder, a valve-case to fit the neck of the bottle having a ange at its upper end to bear against the end of the neck, also extended in the neck of the bottle to said enlargement, locking means to engage said shoulder,a compressible valve-seat in said case surrounding the passage from the bottle, a valve to compress said seat, means for holding said valve to compress said seat and for releasing said valve, which means may not make engaging connection with said valve after it has been released because of the expansion of the valveseat to its original size.

JOSEPH G. MACE.

In presence of JOHN Il. WATSON, MATTHEW M. LvoNs.-

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